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Michael Cochrane

Michael Cochrane

Birthday: 1947-05-19 | Place of Birth: England, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Cochrane (born 19 May 1947) is an English actor who specialises in playing upper class characters, sometimes with a suaveness that hides their villainy. He has had many television and radio roles including Oliver Sterling in the Radio 4 soap opera The Archers, The Pallisers (1974), Wings (1977-78), The Citadel (1983), Goodbye Mr. Chips (1984), No Job for a Lady, The Chief (1990-1995), and as Sir Henry Simmerson in the Sharpe series. He has twice appeared in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, first as Charles Cranleigh in the serial "Black Orchid" (1982) and later as Redvers Fenn-Cooper in "Ghost Light" (1989). He was later associated with Doctor Who when he appeared in the 2006 Big Finish Productions audio drama "No Man's Land". He featured in the ITV science fiction series The Uninvited. In 2008 he appeared in the soap opera Doctors as Daniel's solicitor and in 2009 in Margaret as MP Alan Clark. He appeared in the situation comedy Perfect World as the sex-obsessed marketing director. Cochrane also starred in the 2002 film Offending Angels with Susannah Harker and Shaun Parkes. He is married to the actress Belinda Carroll. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Cochrane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy

as    Self - Archie Pennington-Booth

2022
Living

as    Sir James

2018
RSC Live: Twelfth Night

as    Sir Andrew Aguecheek

2015
We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story

as    Arnold Ridley

2012
Panto!

as    Johnny

2008
Sharpe's Peril

as    Simmerson

2008
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

as    Sir Waldron Smithers

2006
HG Wells: War with the World

as    Minister

2006
Sharpe's Challenge

as    Simmerson

2004
A Different Loyalty

as    Dick Madsen

2002
The Cry

as    Nathaniel Weekly

2002
The Falklands Play

as    Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)

2001
The Innocent

as    Harold Haig

1998
Incognito

as    Detective Inspector Deeks

1996
Sharpe's Regiment

as    Sir Henry Simmerson

1995
Sharpe's Sword

as    Sir Henry Simmerson

1993
Sharpe's Eagle

as    Colonel/General Sir Henry Simmerson

1993
Sharpe

as    Sir Henry Simmerson

1992
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia

as    Winston Churchill

1991
Tell Me That You Love Me

as    Geoff